Hope College: Faculty & Salaries

Overall Rating:Overall Ranking - Below AverageQuality:Education Quality Rating - OustandingSafety:Capmus Safety Rating - Very BadCosts:Tuition & Fees Cost Rating - Poor

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Average
Faculty Salary
$102,000
Bad
Quality of education at any specific college strongly depends on people who teach there.

In this report for Hope College we provide you with information about faculty structure, salaries, and class sizes, as well as comparisons to competing and nearby colleges.

Faculty Compensation and Workload

Full-time
Faculty
247
As a rule, properly compensated instructors are better motivated and have more opportunities to concentrate on teaching; therefore, we consider faculty compensation to be an important factor for evaluating education quality.

Faculty monthly salaries at Hope College vary approximately from $6,000 to $11,000. The average full-time faculty salary at this college is approximately $102,000 a year, it is 21% lower than Michigan average faculty compensation.

Women faculty members at the school are paid $8,028 a month on average; that is a bit lower than average men faculty salaries, $9,079 a month.

Faculty Rank
School Average
MI Average
Difference

Professor
$128,592
$173,000
-26%

Associate professor
$105,672
$128,558
-18%

Assistant professor
$83,196
$108,858
-24%

Instructor
$76,260
$93,561
-18%

Annual Faculty Wages
Students to Faculty Ratios

Hope College Faculty Compensation and Workload Chart
Students to
Faculty Ratio
11 : 1
Low
Hope College has a good, 11:1 students-to-faculty ratio.

Low ratios usually imply smaller class size, more attention to students, better quality of education, and higher satisfaction both for students and instructors. High ratios are usually a sign of the opposite.

Use the charts above to compare faculty compensation and workload at Hope College versus nearby colleges.

Faculty Ranking and Demographics

The full-time faculty at Hope College includes 72 professors, 65 associate professors, 109 assistant professors, and 1 instructor - 117 men and 130 women:
Hope College Faculty Demographics Chart

Please note that faculty rank (e.g. associate professor, lecturer, instructor) is typically assigned by the college itself.

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